Stuart is a romance writer with more than 35 years experience and a winner of the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Her first novel was “Barrett’s Hill,” a gothic romance published by Ballantine in 1974 when she had just turned 25. Since then Stuart has written more gothics, regencies, romantic suspense, romantic adventure, series romance, suspense, historical romance, paranormal and mainstream contemporary romance for publishers such as Doubleday, Harlequin, Silhouette, Avon, Zebra, St. Martins Press, Berkley, Dell, Pocket Books and Fawcett.

Stuart has won numerous awards and appeared on most bestseller lists including The New York Times and USA Today. She has appeared on “Entertainment Tonight” and been written about in, among others, Vogue, People, USA Today and Women’s Day.

Refreshments will be served at this free event. The Mark Skinner Library is located at 48 West Road in Manchester. To RSVP, call the library at 362-2607 or email events@markskinnerlibrary.org.